Volutilithes rakhiensis Eames 1952 (volute)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168

Belongs to Volutilithes according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Volutilithes (Afrovolutilithes), Volutilithes (Volutilithes), Volutilithes acuta, Volutilithes angustata, Volutilithes calabasasensis, Volutilithes clarae, Volutilithes dumosa, Volutilithes fusiformis, Volutilithes gruneri, Volutilithes guillemaini, Volutilithes minor, Volutilithes multicostata, Volutilithes muricinus, Volutilithes nodifera, Volutilithes orocopiaensis, Volutilithes pariaensis, Volutilithes permulticostata, Volutilithes protensa, Volutilithes pseudocostata, Volutilithes pusilla, Volutilithes sindhiensis, Volutilithes spicata, Volutilithes subcorrugata, Volutilithes symmetrica, Volutilithes torreyensis, Volutilithes undulosus, Volutilithes welcommei, Volutilithes whitensis

Type specimen: BMNH G.68324, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1933, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Lutetian marine shale in the Baska Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.1933, Rakhi Nala

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